We moved from South
Gate to San Luis Obispo County in 1965. My husband, Chuck, retired two
years ago after a 31-year career with the San Luis Obispo County
Sheriff's Department.

I helped my parents run their
welding equipment business for 15 years, then bought and ran it for
another 10 years. I sold the business just in time to get my real estate
license and waste a whole lot of money and three years of my life.

We also founded Central Coast
Wildlife Rehabilitation Guild in 1985, which is still going strong and
now called Pacific Wildlife Care.

I work in the accounting department
of a small beach-town community services district, and am an online
student at Strayer University with a 3.4 GPA.

Chuck and I have two grown and
married daughters and five wonderful grandchildren. We own a ranch in
the canyon between Atascadero and Morro Bay where we care for a
miniature horse, an angora goat, a colony of mostly neutered feral cats,
seven spoiled house cats and a screech owl, and usually a couple of
grandkids. We had a mother fox raise her babies in one of the large
drain pipes, and Chuck had a wild turkey adopt him as "daddy"
for several months.

We're amateur weather-spotters for
the NWS, and are occasional backyard astronomers......